Ardis Butterfield


Ardis Butterfield is the Marie Borroff Professor of English, and Professor of Music and French at Yale University.

Education

Butterfield read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, followed by a Master's degree in medieval literature at the University of Bristol, after which she returned to Trinity College to complete a PhD. Her PhD was entitled 'Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry'.

Career

In 2009, Butterfield co-founded the Medieval Song Network, a research group, in London, England, UK.
In 2012, Butterfield became a professor of English at Yale University.
In 2018, Butterfield became a senior research fellow at University of Cambridge. In 2018, Butterfield had been appointed as the Marie Borroff Professor of English at Yale University. Butterfield is leading a team to develop a Digital Archive of Medieval Song.

Awards